netdev - Re: [Patch net-next] net: move __skb_checksum

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Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 12:26:00 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next] net: move __skb_checksum_complete*() to skbuff.c

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:14 PM Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 12:02:00 -0800
> Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 11:54 AM Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Thu,  8 Nov 2018 11:49:49 -0800
> > > Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__skb_checksum_complete);
> > > > +
> > > >  /* Both of above in one bottle. */
> > >
> > > Maybe you should also update/drop this comment now?
> >
> > I have no idea what that comment means. Do you?
>
> I think it refers to the fact that skb_copy_and_csum_bits() implements
> both skb_checksum() and skb_copy_bits(), that were just above it at
> 1da177e4c3f4.
>
> Then more stuff was moved in between, and the comment was never updated
> or dropped.

I don't want to touch what I don't understand. So, let me just move
these two after skb_copy_and_csum_bits().